Estimating time and space required to build a GeoWebCache on disk cache
An outstanding issue when using GeoWebCache is finding out how much disk space a certain layer will use, on disk, once fully cached, and also how much time it will take to pre-seed the cache up until a certain layer.
The GeoWebCache site used to link to a Google Documents spreadsheet providing such an estimate, but the link is gone from the current documentation and, regardless, we found the spreadsheet to be less than accurate, basically ending up computing at the very least the seeding size of 1/4 of the entire world no matter how small the given area was.
Therefore we set out to create a better replacement that would actually count the tiles needed to seed a specific area. The result works for a cache in WGS:84 and is available for everybody to look at and use on Google Documents: GWC estimation – actual tile counting. The current setup compute the actual cache size for the entire Italy.
The document could probably use some more improvements, we’re actually looking forward to hear from you about the results you’re getting and possible improvements to the spreadsheet.
Let us know!
Let us know!
The GeoSolutions team
